Ⅷ. 短文填空(10分)

　　Reading newspapers has becoming an important part of our everyday life. Many people read newspapers a　1　the first thing to do in the morning. O　2　read newspapers as soon as they are free during the day so that they can learn what is h　3　in the world.

　　Sometimes, however, we do not have e　4　time to read all the news carefully, so we just take a quick look at the front page, at other times, we may be in such a h　5　that we only have a few minutes to look at the names of the passages.

　　Newspapers can be found everywhere in the world. We can get many different kinds of newspapers in the big cities, of course, but in some of the mountain v　6　we can see few newspapers.

　　Some newspapers are published o　7　a week, but most of the newspapers are published once a day with many pages, some even published twice a day! As you know different people e　8　reading different newspapers, some like sports news, some like economic news and others prefer short stories. They just choose what they are i　9　in.

　　Today newspapers in English have the l　10　number of readers in the world.

　　Ⅸ. 书面表达(20分)

　　你在半夜时突然听到敲门声, 请根据下面表格中的信息判断敲门者是谁, 并写出理由, 约60～80个词。

　　提示词: knock n. &v. 敲; 击

　　Making inferences Reasons

　　not be parents at home

　　not be a thief not knock at the door

　　might be neighbors want some help

　　probably or certainly be aunt like knocking at the door

　　Who could it be?

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